Guides
Talking to a Mac, on your own terms.
Short reads on local speech to text: what runs where, which model fits your memory, and why the price is what it is.
Why local recording beats a cloud serviceSix reasons to run speech to text on your own Mac instead of sending audio to a server: privacy, cost, speed, offline, ownership, and no account.Which Whisper model for your Mac: 8, 16, 24 and 48 GBA plain guide to picking a local speech model on Apple silicon by memory size, with what each one costs in disk, RAM and accuracy.Talking all day: recording for hours on a MacHow Psst handles long recordings on Apple silicon without heat, without limits, and without uploading anything.Bring your own key: what it means, what it costsPsst never bundles an API key. If you want a cloud engine you paste your own ElevenLabs or OpenAI key, it lives in your Keychain, and you pay them directly.Why Psst costs onceNo subscription, no account, one licence key. How that works and why it is the honest price for a local app.Dictation and recording are different jobsDictation puts a sentence at your cursor. Recording keeps a whole hour. Psst does both, and knowing which one you want changes how you use it.